Organic Remains
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Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
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![]() | 9799 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cockle Shells. Containing green and black paint. |
![]() | 9808 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal Shell 2 bearded bulls rampant, back to back, 3 standing heroes next to one another- two of them are attacking the bulls; the third stands in between the other two heroes. |
![]() | 9855 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 4 Beads. 3 Carnelians and few specifimens of decayed wooden beads - 1 banded sard. String in following order: carnelian barrel, wooden double conoid, banded sard barrel. |
![]() | 9905 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell Inlay Small figure in silhouette, broken, and the head missing Male(?) figure wearing kaukanes of early type with 3 rows of fringes, advancing left. In the left hand a short staff [drawing] 1:1 Good early work. |
![]() | 9906 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell Inlay Small figure in silhouette (head missing) A servant (?) wearing a fringed skirt advances left holding with both hands two piles of pots, each pile containing 4 ordinary tumblers [drawing] 1:1 |
![]() | 9907A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Engraved Shell 3 pieces [A-C] obviously belonging together. Curved in section so as to form with a 4th piece (not found) a short tube. (A) Left, a man with hair in short curls,wearing a skirt with narrow fringes open in front and overlapping, faces right and is fighting a rampant bull: in background, bushes (?) (B) Right, a man exactly like the last seizes from behind a bull, (left) rampant. (C) A bull, left rampant, against a background of bushes. There is a narrow border above and below, plain: the figured are sharply outlined and the ground was cut away and filled with a black pigment of which some remains: the engraved lines of internal detail on the silhouetted figures are also filled in with black. |
![]() | 9907B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Engraved Shell 3 pieces [A-C] obviously belonging together. Curved in section so as to form with a 4th piece (not found) a short tube. (A) Left, a man with hair in short curls,wearing a skirt with narrow fringes open in front and overlapping, faces right and is fighting a rampant bull: in background, bushes (?) (B) Right, a man exactly like the last seizes from behind a bull, (left) rampant. (C) A bull, left rampant, against a background of bushes. There is a narrow border above and below, plain: the figured are sharply outlined and the ground was cut away and filled with a black pigment of which some remains: the engraved lines of internal detail on the silhouetted figures are also filled in with black. |
![]() | 9907C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Engraved Shell 3 pieces [A-C] obviously belonging together. Curved in section so as to form with a 4th piece (not found) a short tube. (A) Left, a man with hair in short curls,wearing a skirt with narrow fringes open in front and overlapping, faces right and is fighting a rampant bull: in background, bushes (?) (B) Right, a man exactly like the last seizes from behind a bull, (left) rampant. (C) A bull, left rampant, against a background of bushes. There is a narrow border above and below, plain: the figured are sharply outlined and the ground was cut away and filled with a black pigment of which some remains: the engraved lines of internal detail on the silhouetted figures are also filled in with black. |
![]() | 9909 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell Plaque Engraved with animal scene. Poor condition & figure indistinct. |
![]() | 9940 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Dagger With remains of the wooden handle Type II |
![]() | 9943 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal White Shell A man and lions fighting, and a lion fighting a bull, a small animal scene, and an inscription. dsara-men (?) dub-sar nin sara-men, scribe of the lady. Into the hole is fitted a tube of dark shale (?). (HC. 205). |
![]() | 9944 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Dagger With the blade is preserved part of the wooden handle bound and studded with silver Type__ |
![]() | 9970 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal White shell In poor condition Presentation scene with one seated deity and three figures approaching |
![]() | 10006 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Double conoids of gold and lapis The larger gold beads are of foil over bitumen, the smaller more solid: the largest are unusually large, both in gold and lapis |
![]() | 10011 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal White shell Only the remains of it, completely decayed It hung on the silver belt with the gold dagger and whetstone |
![]() | 10059 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Object Covered with small hollow studs The metal is very thin and was laid over a wooden base of which plentiful traces remained. The shape was difficult to determine, but the studs, etc., covered nearly the whole of one end of the annex though more plentiful on the side next to the coffin. It might have been a shield? |
![]() | 10090 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Large lentoids, 2 lapis, 1 silver, 2 bitumen(broken) NB the carnelian rings probably went between the large beads |
![]() | 10308 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell Inlay Probably originally set on the butt end of the handle of the copper axe: U.10307. The inlay consists of 1 - hemispherical cap perforated through the middle, 2 rounded nail heads and leaf-shaped fragments [drawing] |
![]() | 10313 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Bangle Lapis & silver double conoids on wooden cores Minute gold, lapis and silver balls For order of stringing cf. Field Note |
![]() | 10330B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Necklace Gold double conoids on a bitumen core Lapis lazuli double conoids. 3 strings: each string has 3 double conoid gold and 6 double conoid lapis |
![]() | 10331A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 Gold earrings Lunate large type with bitumen cores- double pendants |
![]() | 10349A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 Gold Ear Rings Large lunate double pendants hollowed to receive bitumen. Type common to PGs 801-813 |
![]() | 10360A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 Cockle shells One containing black paint, the other green paint |
![]() | 10365 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Necklace Agate, jasper, shell, carnelian lentoids, copper ball beads For order see Field Note |
![]() | 10367 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal Shell. White. Inscribed. 2 heroes each grasping a rampant bull by the tail and forcing the head back by the horns. Each hero clothed in short (sheep-skin?) skirt coming down to the knees: shirt has tasselled ends. Each hero is bearded and the hair at the back of the head is done up into a short upturned curl. Seal has copper caps set in bitumen. Caps broken and decayed. Par t of subject obliterated. A - DEN-ZU-dim Ka-su-du - A-ENZU-dim, libationer: (suggested by Dr. Rarn): A- DEN-ZU-sim - son created by EN-ZU (analogy with A-anni-padda). |